"Experience keeps a dear school, but fool"

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.”

- Benjamin Franklin,

Tag: experience, folly, fools, learning, life-lessons, painful,

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“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: aphorism, aphorisms, appear, appearance, attire, attitude, attitudes, be-nice-be-nicer, clothes, clothing, consumerism, deceive, fail, failure, fake, families, family, family-member, family-members, fool, foolish, fools, friend, friends, humor, humour, impression, impressions, insult, insults, intellect, intelligence, intelligent, looks-can-be-deceiving, made-it, make-it, materialism, money, nice, poor, poverty, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, rich, riches, satire, stupid, stupidity, succeed, success, successful, wealth, wealthy,

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“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: aphorism, aphorisms, chance, chances, deem, deemed, fool, foolish, fools, humor, humour, impress, impression, impressions, odds, probability, probable, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, regard, regarded, satire, wisdom, wise,

2

“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: advice, advices, advise, aphorism, aphorisms, counsel, counseling, counselling, counsellor, counsellors, counselor, counselors, divorce, divorced, divorcee, divorcees, experience, extended-families, extended-family, families, family, fool, foolish, fools, humor, humour, husband, husbands, learn, learned, lesson, lessons, love, lover, lovers, made-me-think, make-you-think, marriage, marriage-proposal, marriage-proposals, married, marry, nuclear-families, nuclear-family, proposal, proposals, propose, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, relationship, relationship-advice, relationships, satire, satirical, thought-provoking, useful, usefulness, useless, uselessness, wife, wisdom, wise, wives,

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“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, fame, famous, fool, foolish, fools, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, insight, insightful, insights, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, philosopher, profound, profundity, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, remark, remarked, remarks, rich, riches, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, south-africa, south-african, stupid, stupidity, thought-provoking, thoughtful, wealth, wealthy, wisdom, wise,

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“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

Tag: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, authority, axiom, axioms, bondage, child, children, control, controlling, cultivated, cultured, deep, deep-pockets, dictum, dictums, dominance, dominate, domination, dominion, dwarf, dwarfs, economies, economy, educated, education, employed, employment, enlightened, enslavement, epigram, epigrams, erudite, fool, foolish, fools, freedom, funny, giant, giants, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, ignoramus, ignorant, impossibilities, impossible, influence, informed, insightful, intelligent, invent, invented, invention, job, jobs, kid, kids, knowledge, knowledgeable, made-me-think, make-you-think, master, masters, mastery, maxim, maxims, midget, midgets, money, monied, monies, old, philosopher, poor, possibilities, possibility, possible, poverty, power, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, rich, riches, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, scholarly, serfdom, servitude, slave-master, slave-masters, slavery, south-africa, south-african, strong, thought-provoking, thoughtful, thrall, thralldom, vassalage, weak, weakness, wealth, wealthy, well-educated, well-informed, well-read, wisdom, wise, work, working, young,

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“Wise people take revenge by succeeding with love. A fool takes revenge with resentment and hate.”

- Debasish Mridha

Tag: debasish-mridha, debasish-mridha-md, fools, inspirational, love, philosophy, quotes, resentment-and-hate, wise-people,

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“Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.”

- J. P. Vinluca,

Tag: control, fools, knowledge, men, power, vanity,

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“It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see ‘the positive person’ or ‘the negative person’ in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wisdom, but not always wise in his own eyes, even he can learn from and give back to fools. To think that an individual has absolutely nothing to offer to the table is counter-intuitively what the wise man considers to be ‘the ignorance of hopelessness’.”

- Criss Jami,

Tag: compassion, fools, hope, hopelessness, ignorance, negative, people, positive, understanding, wisdom,

3

“Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.”

- Michael Flynn,

Tag: fools, hope, hopelessness, success,

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“What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.”

- Lauren Oliver,

Tag: death, fools, glitter, gold, promises,

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“I don’t know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.”

- Alison Croggon,

Tag: foolishness, fools, knowledge, wisdom, wise,

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“Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.”

- Michael Bassey Johnson

Tag: bad, ego, egoism, egoist, egotism, egotist, enemy, envious, envy, fight, fighting, fool, fools, friends, friendships, gift, happiness, happy, hate, hater, hatred, jealous, jealousy, michael-bassey-johnson, money, negative, negative-people, pangs, people, poison, problem, prying, regret, regrets, relate, relationships, reveal, show, surprises, trouble, villian, witchcraft,

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

- Bertrand Russell

Tag: certainty, doubt, fanatics, fools, wisdom,

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“The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he’s wise – He’s called ‘a fool’ indeed!”

- Anonymous,

Tag: buddhist, fools, knowledge, v-63, wisdom,

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